Erdogan: We will submit our request to join the genocide case against Israel on August 7

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the legal committee of his country's parliament will submit to the International Court of Justice Ankara's request to join the genocide case filed against Israel on August 7.

During a press conference on Monday, after chairing a government meeting at the presidential complex in Ankara, Erdogan added that Turkey stands with Palestine and supports "the Palestinian brothers with all its capabilities despite the (economic) difficulties they are experiencing these days."

Regarding the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the Turkish president stressed that his country is doing "everything in its power to end this barbarism that has claimed the lives of 40,000 innocent people in the past ten months, as soon as possible." He continued: "The West, especially the United States, have unfortunately become prisoners of Israel and a handful of fanatical Zionists."

He added that with the tenth month of the attacks on the Gaza Strip approaching, the martyrdom of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh "marked a new crossing of the line in the Gaza crisis," and stressed that the "aggressive stance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, which does not recognize laws or norms, is making our region face bad scenarios."

He stated that the Netanyahu government "has repeatedly shown its desire to continue the policy of massacres despite Hamas' constructive positions," and Erdogan warned of the consequences of the Netanyahu government continuing its efforts to expand the war in the region "as long as the powers supporting it continue their contradictory policies" regarding the Gaza war.

On another note, the Turkish president stressed that his country always enhances its successes in various diplomatic fields, and that in recent years it has become a place "where the heart of global and regional diplomacy beats." He added that Turkey has left its mark of diplomatic success in many initiatives since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, citing the Istanbul Agreement for shipping grain across the Black Sea. He stressed that the agreement contributed to delivering 33 tons of grain to global markets through the Turkish Straits.

Erdogan also said that the region is witnessing difficult days, indicating that there are no signs on the horizon about the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war that has been going on for more than two years.

Regarding the prisoner exchange process between 7 countries in Ankara, Erdogan congratulated the Turkish intelligence service and its elements “who played a sensitive role in the important exchange process that established Turkey’s pivotal role alongside its humanitarian dimension,” and stressed that “the exchange of 26 people in prisons in the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus took place without any problems and was a model for the world.”